This is an alternative to the Unity Candle which works well for an outdoors wedding when the winds are high and keeping the candles lit are close to impossible.


_______ and _______, you have just sealed your relationship by the exchanging of vows.  This covenant is a relationship pledge between two people who agree that they will commit themselves to one another throughout their lives.  You have committed here today to share the rest of your lives with each other. Today, this relationship is symbolized through the pouring of these two individual containers of sand, one, representing you, _______ and all that you were, all that you are, and all that you will ever be, and the other representing you, _______, and all that you were and all that you are, and all that you will ever be. As these two containers of sand are poured into the third container, the individual containers of sand will no longer exist, but will be joined together as one. Just as these grains of sand can never be separated and poured again into the individual containers, so will your marriage be.